Today's thought:
A funny thing happens in our brains when we're writing our main character. We secretly, on some subconscious level, consent to casting ourselves in the part. They are us, it's our POV, our feelings, our life lessons, and our attitude. But somehow we end up holding back, we forget to include all our flaws and contradictions, and everything that makes us a real person. An interesting person. The MC ends up becoming a version of us, but without any of the life to it. Maybe because, again on that subconscious level, we know it's us, so we kind of want to hide the bad parts a little.
But in the spirit of art as therapy, I think there's probably a lot of value in just admitting there's at least part of you in your main character. And in the spirit of therapy as art, including some of those worst bits of you in there. As a practical exercise, what are your top three flaws, and how could you use them in your story? At the very least, drawing from your own flaws will help the down turns in the script feel more genuine and less contrived.
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